In the tumultuous spring of 1931, amidst the rugged landscape of Black Mountain, Kentucky, a violent clash erupted that would claim the life of 39-year-old James Daniels. A man employed as a guard for the Black Mountain Corporation, Daniels found himself on the front lines of a bitter and escalating labor dispute between the coal company and its miners. The region, fraught with tension, had become a powder keg of resentment over low wages and poor working conditions, and on the morning of May 5t
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